Patrick Fisher

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

@rkn0003 #AuburnWorldHistory I completely agree with you. I know the University of Chicago cannot be the only one, especially with all that I've seen this year concerning universities with statues or landmarks of historical figures who have a horrible past.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "Instead, Joe and Julia saw their sisters, nieces, and nephews sold away to a man named 'Irwin Scarborough' never to be seen again." I cannot imagine how hard it would be to see your own family being sold off not knowing if you will ever see them again.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "Meanwhile in Mississippi, enslaved workers kept working. Soon, Douglas would work a third of them to death." I still cannot believe how people found others' lives to be so unimportant when it came to making a profit. Disgusting.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "Hundreds of enslaved African American men, women, and children lived and died on that plantation to make the University of Chicago, and its $7 billion endowment, possible." This is a horrible fact. What's also sad is The University of Chicago ignores this.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

@William68009329 #AuburnWorldHistory I agree. I constantly hear the term "neoliberalism" but I have never quite understood what it meant until reading this very informative interview.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory The implementation of think tanks around very hard headed universities in order to conduct great research to "surround and infiltrate the universities" was smart. Doing this led to a deep influence within the press, thus influencing universities and so forth.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory Interesting to discover that "neoliberalism", according to David Harvey, emerged from the corporate capitalist class in the late 1960's and early 1970's when members of the class realized the struggle they had in curbing the power of labor.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory I have constantly heard the term neoliberalism and many others being said with the speaker not knowing what it truly means. I am appreciative of this article as it really explains what neoliberalism really stands for.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

@AuburnJt #AuburnWorldHistory I agree with you. I believe why this is the reason no other country has used these nuclear weapons. Once one country uses them, the fear is that the victim will retaliate with their own. It's a scary thought.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations... that goes for every last one of you regardless of your race, color, or creed." Happy to see that these soldiers overcame their differences converging for a greater fight.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "The folks back home are counting on you and by golly we aren't about to let them down." I am so thankful for everyone in our military, past, present, and future, as they are constantly risking their lives for us every single day.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "Heck I reckon you wouldn't be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat." Remembering that all major powers in this world have nukes and could use them at anytime is pretty frightening.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

@sydneyclose8 #AuburnWorldHistory I agree. It got me thinking about if there is any way to reshape and reform African economies in order to have a better way of life, but that opens up many questions such as how much outside countries should intervene and the extent of their help.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "You don't take a wannabe boxer and throw them in the same ring with a heavy-weight." This was a perfect comparison for the struggling economies of Africa.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "They made economies (in Africa) to where it seems like they will never be able to make it on their own." Is it possible to reform these African economies for better living? If so, how much should outside countries intervene?

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "By 1884 they (the Portuguese) had started looting from each other what they had looted from the Africans." Greed is a horrible thing. That and differences are what caused so many conflicts in the world and continue to do so today.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

@ChapmanAuHIST #AuburnWorldHistory I completely agree. I had no clue organizations such as the UNIA even existed, let alone what all they did and the fact that UNIA had "six million members in more than forty countries around the world."

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "Originally established in Kingston,Jamaica in 1914, the UNIA attracted ~six million members in more than forty countries around the world." It is incredible to think that many people from around the world joined the same organization in the early 1900s.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "Certainly, the rapidly expanding labor force improved conditions for many black women, who constituted 600,000 out of one million black workers during World War II." I've never heard of this fact. This is incredible progression for women in the 40s.

[Patrick Fisher @au_fisher]

#AuburnWorldHistory "On the home front, many black Americans were supporting American military aspirations given the persistence of racial violence, disenfranchisement,and Jim Crow segregation." Crazy to think African Americans did not have Civil Rights yet fought in the US Army